It took him eight months to build the truck in his one-car garage. He used Ford axles, a Chevrolet bed, an Oldsmobile engine and the frame from a 1949 International. picked by proverb 2 months ago

Students at Gonville & Caius college in England placed a Santa's hat on top a spire 60' in the air. Thinking that this soft and oh so light felt/wool hat might be a hazard if it fell and floated to the ground where it could gently alight on someone, authorities called for 3 speeding steel fire trucks weighing many tons each to bring it down. picked by 2manyusernames 11 months ago

Hemp powered cars were the dream of both Henry Ford and Rudolf Diesel. It's a major source of ethanol that would allow the use to curb food shortages as a result of Corn and Grain Farmers being asked to sell their grain to ethanol manufacturers. picked by tigertony 2 years ago

It was 1927. Ford wanted his own supply of rubber — and he decided to get it by carving a plantation and a miniature Midwest factory town out of the Amazon jungle. It was called "Fordlandia." picked by kakana 6 months ago

Stateside authorities saw the hulking vehicles, which can cost as much as a $1 million each, as a financial threat to programs aimed at developing lighter vehicles that were years from being fielded. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

Central China, plagued with about two billion rats forced out by a flooded lake, trucks the live rodents to the south to be used in restaurant dishes. picked by maxriter 2 years ago

Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, the Charles Manson follower who tried to shoot President Gerald Ford in 1975, will be released from prison as early as Aug. 14.
Fromme, now 60, has been serving a life sentence in Texas. A federal parole board granted her parole last year, but her release was delayed because she got extra time after trying to escape from a West Virginia facility in 1987. picked by Bingo 4 months ago

A Mountain View man has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he made counterfeit bills in an unusual location - the back of his 1996 Ford Aerostar van picked by bornbad 7 months ago

Before Mark Martin retired (for the first time) from full-time Nextel Cup racing, he was asked who he would like to see take over driving duties in his No. 6 Ford.

"I'll tell you exactly who I would put in the 6 car in a heartbeat," Martin said. "Joey Logano." picked by wags273 2 years ago

Can you believe this letter? Mary Ford applied for a job in the Inking and Painting Department at Disney only to be told NO: "Women do not do any of the creative work... that work is performed entirely by young men." picked by mattgup 11 months ago

California sued the federal government Wednesday in its ongoing bid to set the country's first greenhouse gas limits on cars, trucks and SUVs, providing new data to show its program is superior to a federal plan. picked by redalert 2 years ago

Reputed Klansman convicted of kidnapping and conspiracy in the 1964 deaths of Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee. picked by Moe 2 years ago

Craig Buford of Fort Worth was fatally shot in the back in 1973. Unfortunately that didn't fit his plans to do manly stuff like driving buses and trucks so he didn't give in and die until December of last year. picked by pocksucket 11 months ago

Ray Bengen, was riding down the Ninth Avenue bike lane when he came across the Ford Excursion (curb weight: 7,190 lbs). A long-time city cyclist, Bengen had a green light and wasn't quite sure what to make of the vehicle in front of him. The car wasn't moving and its brake lights were off. picked by suebe 5 months ago

Top Gear puts them to the test. Which one did you bet would win? picked by ted 2 years ago

Awesome photography by this guy, check out the Ford S-Max publicity shots (Top Right). picked by thenegativeone 2 years ago

It seems that sitting in the left lane, engine idling, waiting for oncoming traffic to clear so you can make a left-hand turn is minutely wasteful, unless we're talking about more than 95,000 big square brown trucks, in which case the wasted time and fuel is immense. picked by tigertony 2 years ago

A moose wandering through a parking lot in Hampton on Wednesday tried to court a Ford F150 pickup truck. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

"Chevy's icky, exploitative new ad." picked by cb__ 3 years ago